14 Oct 2025
13 Oct 2025
10GHz radar module
These are available very inexpensively (just £1.25 on Ali-Express!), so I am wondering has anyone adapted these to 10GHz wideband FM (WBFM) transceivers? These look as if someone will "hack" them!
WSPR and band hopping?
As we approach declining sunspot numbers, many just give up on the higher HF bands.
Often, these bands are "open" (just listen to the CB band next door to 10m!) whereas a lack of activity is the real cause. Especially on N-S paths the bands are open far more often than we think.
With WSPR we can check how good our higher HF bands really are. WSPR is widely monitored so we could send WSPR on several bands in sequence into an antenna that covers these bands (like an EFHW) and watch who spots us around the world on various bands using WSPRnet.
FT7 Yaesu transceiver
My very first HF commercial transceiver was the 10W Yaesu FT-7 bought second hand in the late 1970s.
It was a great rig and allowed me to work 10m QRP DXCC with 10W SSB back in the 1980s. This was with low wire dipoles and a CB half wave antenna.
By comparison with modern rigs it was big but it was very quiet on RX. If I had to rate it I would give it 11/10. In all my years it was the best transceiver I have ever owned. No synthesisers, no memories, fully analogue …just great.
12 Oct 2025
Times Radio
Quite often, I watch Times Radio on YouTube. They interview some interesting characters on the world stage and often, their views are full of incite, even if you may not agree.
In my view it is worth getting world news from several sources as often one source may be biased.
10m 500mW WSPR (Sunday)
My beacon has been on since about 0910z.
UPDATE 0935z: Spotted in the Canary Is. by 2 stations.
6m 5W FT8 (Sunday)
UPDATE 2010z: 29 spots of me so far today. See map.
The current station
Mostly I am active on 6m QRP FT8 and 10m QRP WSPR with my beacon (which is out of shot). The photo shows my current setup.
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